{"id":52901,"date":"2023-11-28T22:57:40","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wegotthiscovered.com\/?p=1631377"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:57:40","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:57:40","slug":"who-was-roseanne-barrs-ex-husband-and-what-did-he-have-to-say-about-her-infamous-racist-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamefootballmobileanimeiphone.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/28\/who-was-roseanne-barrs-ex-husband-and-what-did-he-have-to-say-about-her-infamous-racist-tweet\/","title":{"rendered":"Who was Roseanne Barr\u2019s ex-husband and what did he have to say about her infamous racist tweet?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There are a few answers to the question \u201cWho was Roseanne Barr<\/a><\/strong> married to?\u201d and probably dozens of answers to the question \u201cWhat did they say about her career-flattening tweets?\u201d<\/p>\n

Chances are, though, that you\u2019re wondering about Barr\u2019s second husband, comedian and True Lies 2 <\/em>enthusiast Tom Arnold<\/a>. See, Barr has been married three times: In 1974, she tied the knot with motel clerk Bill Pentland, and the union lasted for just shy of 16 years. In 1995, she married her former bodyguard, Ben Thomas. They made it until 2002 before splitting up. In 2003, she began a relationship with Johnny Argent, a writer, and the two have been together ever since, cohabitating on a macadamia nut farm in Hawaii. <\/p>\n

And right in the middle, between two weeks after her marriage to Pentland ended and 10 months before her marriage to Thomas, Roseanne Barr<\/a> married Tom Arnold. The four-year coupling saw great acts of creation: Arnold became a regular on Roseanne, <\/em>landed his own sitcom, and the two co-owned a sandwich shop. There were also losses. The sandwich shop went out of business.<\/p>\n

And in the years that followed, Arnold became a go-to expert when it came to Barr\u2019s frequently erratic behavior<\/a>. By way of example: When Barr was excised from ABC\u2019s Roseanne <\/em>revival in 2018 following one of her many social media catastrophes, the media went to Arnold for insights. <\/p>\n

For anyone fuzzy on the details, on May 29, 2018, Barr described Valerie Jarrett, an African-American advisor to the Obama administration, by saying that she looked like the \u201cmuslim brotherhood and planet of the apes had a baby.\u201d The backlash was more or less instantaneous: ABC\u2019s parent company, Disney, fired Barr and canceled Roseanne, <\/em>eventually reconfiguring it as The Conners<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n

Arguments were made \u2013 largely by Barr \u2013 that Barr wasn\u2019t being racist, just rude and, generously, really dumb. But her ex-husband had other thoughts. <\/p>\n

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@brianstelter<\/a> that's funny. ABC execs figured out a way to control me. They blocked me from promoting anything on ABC because I called out Roseanne Barr & her dangerous tweets. @GMA<\/a> https:\/\/t.co\/Q0BbE4uhhg<\/a><\/p>\n

— Tom Arnold (@TomArnold) May 29, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n